Fly-paper holder.



A. A. FRYB. FLY PAPER HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 29, 1908.

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AUSTIN A. FRYE, OF LOWELL, MASSAGHUSETTS.

FLY-PAPER HOLDER.

Application filed June 29,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, Ans'rrx A. Farm, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of idassachusetts, have in vented a certain new and useful Improvement in Fly-Paper Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improven'ient in tly paper holders, the general objects of the same being to furnish a light inexpensive device, constructed of wire, adapted to hold securely a sheet of sticky fly-paper flat and to support it in an elevated position out of danger of contact with clothing and other articles that might be injured thereby, and to facilitate the introduction of the paper to said holder and its removal there from.

In the accon'ipanying drawing, Figure 1 is a plan of a fly-paper holder provided with my improvement; Fig. an end elevation of the same; Fig. 3, an enlarged plan of a part of the same, showing a means of holding the table or paper-supportin wires in place; Fig. l, a vertical sect-ion of one side of the frame and a side elevation of parts of some of the paper-supporting wires.

A represents a skeleton wire frame. rectangular in plan, having straight sides a a vided in the middle with an eye a a, said ends sloping downward from said eyes to said sides.

The table or paper-supporting surface of the device comprises the sides a a and crosswires B B which terminate in hooks b b which reach under, outside of and in over said sides, said cross wires being represented as V-shaped wires twisted together in the middle at b in parts, two such pairs being shown in Fig. 1.

Between the pairs of cross-wires is arranged a brace and tie wire C which holds the sides a a" at the proper distance from each other, said wire C reaching below said sides and being bent up around said sides into eyes 0 0 (Figs. 1, 8 and a) at each end.

The accidental displacement of the wire C and the adjacent hooks b b on the side wires a c is guarded against by loops D 1 Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 13, 1909.

1908. Serial No. 440,820.

(F gs. and i) of fine wire passed around all said wires.

Tne bail or suspending wire E is provided with a central hook, loop 6 or equivalent means of engaging a string or cord (not shown) by which it may be hung from a gas-fixture, chandelier or other overhead de vice in an obvious manner, and from said loop 6, the arms c c of the bail are bent downward and terminate in hooks c 0* adapted to engage the eyes a (r (Fig. 1) of the ends a 0;. These hooks c" 0* may be disengaged from the eyes a a for trans portation and the bails placed upon the top holder, the holders being nested together.

The paper is introduced by shoving one of the narrow ends of the paper below one of the ends of the holder and above the cross-wires, but below the hook c a The paper should be wide enough to till the space between the bottom of the hooks snugly and it will be better if the paper has to be lightly bent upward in the middle to get it in place between the bottoms of the hooks.

It will be seen that the bail is of such proportions and arrangement that when the bail falls, it is held out of contact with the base or table of the holder by the hooks Z) Z) and by the height of its pivots and that thus the bail is prevented from being soiled by the sticky coating of the fly-paper.

The paper in the holder when the latter it tipped over prevented from coming in contact with the counter, table or floor on which it falls by the ends a a? being engaged above the paper supporting surface.

The sticky fly-catching papa is almost entirely uncovered, the bail affording no obstruction to the passage of the flies to the paper and offering little resting place for the flies.

I claim as my invention z- 1. A flypaper holder formed of wire having a. frame rectangular in plan and provided with straight sides and with ends each having an eye in the middle and being inclined downward in opposite directions from said eye to said sides, cross-wires connecting said sides and forming a support for said fly-paper and having hooks which extend inward above said sides, and a bail having bail having hooks i0 engage the eyes in said hooks to engage the eyes 111 said ends. ends. l0

2. A fly-paper holder having a skeleton In witness whereof, I have affixed my slg- Wlle frame with parallel sides, ends having nature in presence of two Witnesses.

each an eye in the middle and inclined up- AUSTIN A. FRYE. wardly from said sides to said eye, crossltnessesz wires connecting said sides and havlng hooks ALBERT M. MOORE,

which reach inward above said sides, and a LUDGER A. NICOL. 

